Rue du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque

General Leclerc, whose real name was Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, was a French military officer born on November 22, 1902 in Belloy-Saint-Léonard and died on November 28, 1947 in a plane crash in Mali. He distinguished himself during the Second World War by leading the French troops of the 2nd DB during the liberation of Paris in 1944. He also participated in the Tunisian campaign and the liberation of Strasbourg. He became the governor general of French Indochina in 1945 and led the war against the Viet Minh before dying in an accident